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YES!

It works how you describe it alterego. Spicework its the best example of I can think of who pulls this off extremely well in a multi vendor enivornment. Basically you call the vendor web interface grab the data then input into your db then make a custom report / alert for warantly status. As Dogeron pointed out in his post…

can't wait to test the SQL improvement, kudos on actionable data. Btw Sign up link goes straight to surveymonkey.com and not the actual sign up piece.

While I don't put stock in Gartner usually this one I do agree with but to be honest out of the companies listed besides fluke as far as NPM is concerned is should be farther to the right in comparison to the other product listed. I would be interesting to see where they rank Solarwinds as a whole from a infrastructure…

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Here is what I try educate people (read managers) on as far as monitoring. I record all the monitoring available from the system however I do not alert 90% until there is a commitment by the SME of that service to what is meaningful. Also I tend to make a ton of it self service due to different group have different needs…

Good info for sure.

or storage specifically what help me learn about how to not screw up storage is learning what to monitoring first and understanding cost with recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) in summary how much can I afford to lose or blast zone. In my line of if you don't have them answered up front your…

Yeah i joke with my sw rep alot, but I firmly believe once you know you solarwinds. I am glad its not a full time job and nails most of what I want out of the box and then if i want to customize I can. I would go bananas if I had to deal with the other big 3 solutions having worked with them.

Topic that I would like to see covered more so than others is reporting and using SAM and leveraging its action executes scripts or programs from alerts . Using powershell or bash script in this use case helps tons as we leverage it almost as a orchestration engine for executing diagnostics / tasks when the alert fires.…

May I put on the list appinisght for windows cluster. Reasoning is this. Alot of time if I have to reverse engineering cluster settings when we decomission servers and checking DNS entries where removed is part of my tasks which is not as fun as it sounds but having this in the ops plane of glass would be super helpful as…

August or October if any past history serves as an indication.

There are tons of free learning resources on youtube if you want to go that route. Pluralsight and cbtnuggets are good paid resources for the bang vs buck. Start will something small then go from there. Versioning you can do it if you want to me its not that big of a deal cause if your doing devops you will probably catch…

Note I kinda get around this by manually added the service if its not defined in the template already. Then in processes and services I can drill and get the data that way for CPU and Memory historically which is what I am after from a inside the node perspective whether its physical or virtual.

Protocol wise this is not the issue most modern is api driven, I know this for Cisco UCS and I love it. It really depends on vendors implementations and seeing how bad or good they are. For specific server related OMI (Leading the development of open, vendor-neutral IT standards and certifications | The Open Group) across…

Kudos, Well done, great write up. What verison of sam would one need to be at might be helpful as some folks split NPM and SAM don't ask me why but folks do and I understand it.

I would add do not forget about Cisco UCS rack mounts as well, its API does expose through its CIMC out of band interface. Its similar to DRAC/ILO.

I think your in a hard spot with FoE. We took the approach of replicate the database and update the dns entry but we have the staff in house to know how to do that when taking into the cost consideration of FoE. I am making assumption through that most medium to large size business have that knowledge to do so.

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Hype is the correct term for sure. Here is what has not changed in IT or any business really for years. Measure with metrics, the data should be able to substantiate the claim of the product(cloud, SSD, new whizbang app) in your environment. The second part is it all comes down to risk and how much your willing to accept. .

I will say for monitoring multiple vendors the storage manager offered by Solarwinds is decent place to start that is cost effective. Regardless since storage is the backbone of the enterprise more so that compute in my world it requires do the daily checks by ops. I will say my tool of choice is powershell if the vendor…

Thanks, thats what i was missing was making a template then custom SNMP as per the link.

Orion.ActionProperties doesn't seem to exist is this running for you successfully, I attempted and it errors out on that table name. Looking with SWQL tool I do not see that table listed.

It may have to post which hardware you have and what you are looking for?

I went under sam setting, Browse for Component Monitor, I see SNMP process monitors which I don't believe is what I am looking for. Is this created from the Web console or the advanced alerting settings on the server wher SAM is installed?

Thanks I will try that out.

Yeah I don't have that table period. In SAM at all interesting. Might be a product consistency issue between NPM and SAM. Thanks for screenshot.

Thanks add it in.

I see on the SDK on page 29 it does say UTC. Here is the code for reference. Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.Nodes Unmanage @("N:$nodeid ",$now,$later,"false") where in this case $now and $later are listed below $now = Wednesday, January 7, 2015 7:29:19 AM $later = Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:35:19 PM

There are a few ways to do this some prefer more than others but each company is different. Looking for unknowns? If its Windows use custom powershell to pull that information out of the cert store on the server monitoring. The 2nd piece of this is tie it into the application monitor. For IIS, App Insight is awesome. CA…